Performance in a state or district depends largely on the zeal of the bureaucrat in charge.
Other important world stories saw the head of the Israeli secret service forced to resign after a bungled assassination attempt and the top bureaucrat in the French island of Corsica murdered by separatists.
Subhash Chandra, the highest ranking bureaucrat in the Uttar Pradesh government department looking after law and order, said he had no information of a "lathi" (bamboo cane) charge by police to control the crowd.
Hulot, the French bureaucrat in charge of holidays, is a twit who should be fired forthwith.
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Germany has favoured giving the job to a bureaucrat unlikely to mount much of a challenge to the prerogatives of national governments.
The difference is that even the most corporate bureaucrat can see it coming.
During the Reagan administration some bright bureaucrat noticed that by inflating dairy prices the federal government was encouraging farmers to produce more milk, which Washington then had to buy to maintain at inflated prices, which only encouraged farmers to add more cows and produce more milk.
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He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.
"The notion that we have some bureaucrat standing next to every doctor between the patient and that doctor is a complete creation, there is no truth to that at all, " Segal said.
Administrative courts, provided for by the constitution, should be created, in which a bureaucrat, and not the citizen, is obliged to provide legal justification for his decisions and actions.
If there are indeed 13, 000 lobbyists at work in Brussels, that is roughly one for every bureaucrat in the European Commission.
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Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Chikao Kawai, the highest-ranking foreign ministry bureaucrat, summoned Chinese ambassador Cheng Yunghua to complain about the intrusion of patrol ships.
Any speaker, any authority, any journalist or bureaucrat asserting the catastrophic danger of supposed man-caused global warming needs to be asked for their response to Climate Change Reconsidered.
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The first of several planned debates gave voters a foretaste of the federal-election campaign due later this year: Mr Abbott, the attack dog, against Mr Rudd, the unflappable, dry bureaucrat.
If France has a law against insulting bureaucrats (it does) and you insult a French bureaucrat on the web then you have, at least arguably, just committed a crime in France.
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More importantly, unlike Mr Haqqani, whether it is Pakistan's military or civilian leadership or the US administration, anyone dealing with her will have the confidence that she is just what she comes across as, a straight-talking politician rather than a career bureaucrat skilled in the art of double speak and intrigue.
In his most human film, the 1952 Ikiru, a petty bureaucrat learns he is dying of cancer and resolves to do one good thing: fight for the creation of a city park.
This columnist happens rather to like that gung-ho approach, yet also recognises that the consumer is not the nine-year-old user with infinite time on her hands, but a government bureaucrat who has to evaluate the machines relative to the other options.
And the UK courts usually require rather more evidence than the gut feel of a bureaucrat.
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Until her marriage she perhaps lived in the province on the Japan Sea where her bureaucrat father had been appointed governor.
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Lawyers are "encouraged that there's a prosecutor at the helm, not a bureaucrat, " said Stuart Meissner, a former Wall Street prosecutor now in private practice.
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That percentage, which is constantly changing, has not been set by a bureaucrat but by the forces of the market, which are just as real as the forces of nature.
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He argued that "the dividing line" over what was exempt ought to be an individual's conscience and not a bureaucrat saying that was not in the literal meaning of participation.
Mr Moynihan argued that "the dividing line" over what was exempt ought to be an individual's conscience and not a bureaucrat saying that was not in the literal meaning of participation.
The Bank of Canada has named long-term bureaucrat and economist Stephen Poloz as its new head, replacing Mark Carney who is going to run the Bank of England.
The position has a five-year term and is usually held by an anonymous bureaucrat, but Bair has forced her way to the center of the debate over the financial crisis.
The boats were all lined up ready to go, when some bureaucrat showed up and told them they couldn't go out on the water unless they had proof of insurance and registration.
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